Game Thread GAME# 40: BLAZERS @ LAKERS - JANUARY 10, 2017 - TUESDAY, 7:30 PM (PDT), CSNNW

You dont see people get under Dames skin, like ever. Russell woke the beast. Hope this ultra aggressive Dame is back for good

 

haha. nah. I haven't been to a L*kers game since Greg Oden's first game. I'll get in a fight, I literally get triggered seeing the urine and violet.

 

Damn. They woulda prolly benched LeBron on the second night of b2b tmrw. Guessing another reschedule

 

Sole possession of 8th place, Playoffs, Baby!!

 

No ones asking but imma share anyway. I was the only Blazers fan in my section. I was petty quiet until Russell went at dame. After that I made sure to stand up after every Portland bucket and let my section know what time it was. This dude told me to shut the fuck up and I asked him to tell me the score. Then he mumbled something and that was the end of our interaction

 

We have Aminu now. No, seriously.

 

We had Aminu in the first half, too.

We gave up 57 points in the first half. That's the equivalent of giving up 114 points per game, which would tie us for last in the league with BRK.

We gave up 30 points in the second half. The equivalent of 60 points per game.

We literally went from the worst defense in the league to the best defense in the entire history of the NBA from one half to the next.

I think that variation from one half to the next is what BonesJones was referring to.

BNM

 

Anyone know what the beef was about between Lillard and Russell?
(apart from the obvious: Russell is a little piss & purple turd)

 

man my general disposition about life changes for the better whenever we win.

 

Thanks for that, you rock! It confirmed my beliefs

Doesn't it sure look like Russel is calling Dame a chump as they get separated? Looks like he says it twice. "Chump. Your a chump."

Man, dame is such a great leader and this is yet another example.
I LOVE that he said he was not going to just let the elbow go and he made that known and anything said after that he could care less about. He doesn't give a shit about the shit talking and thus, I don't think anyone will ever be able to get into his head with shit talking because he KNOWS he does everything the best he possibly can. Including trying to improve on things.

He plays the game clean. He is on the up and up. Fuck I love this guy. Not like @Cippy91 give my life love, lol,
But more like @yuyuza1 type love when he says...

 

He's easily my favorite Blazer since the late 80s/early 90s Rip City era!

 

The last 30 seconds of that D'Angelo Russell interview are unintentional comedic gold.

Starting around 1:10:

Russell: After the little whatever you call it, we just, we just deferred. We never, we didn't throw any punches and go forward, and you know, and, and compete more. We turned it down a little bit.

Reporter: Do you feel like when you play guys like Lillard, and the Steph Currys and Chris Pauls of the world that they have that extra gear... when they need it?

Russell: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know about them. I have it. So...

Yes, you do D'Angelo. You have an extra gear. It's called reverse!

After the "incident", you were personally outscore 13-2 and your team was out scored 44-24. Way to take it to that next level!

BNM

 

BNM I enjoy your post very much.
I do not post often as I am now 80yrs old and slow typest. I have been a blazer fan since 1970 however and read this forum all the time.

A coment that might be considered is that the blazers do not get respect from officials so they are becomming more caucious in the first half on the road to
conserve fouls. They then can go strong in the second half. Seems to be what they did last night.

Dame also contributed stats to help his tamemates even though
he was off shooting.

 

Not sure if I buy the foul concerns. No one on this team outside of Dame and C.J. should be holding back for one second because they are worried about picking up fouls. We are supposedly a deep team, and that should be one of the advantages of that depth. Everyone should be going all out every second they're on the court. Someone gets tired or in foul trouble, next man up!

I'd really like to know what Terry said to the guys at halftime. Must have been one hell of a speech!

BNM

 

Damn it BNM, how dare you bring facts like that into this discussion. Some Laker fan may visit here and be offended.

 

dame: "he poked the bear, and you see what happened the rest of the game."


hahahahahahaha owned so hard